Friday Scrambler
In an exclusive the Yorkshire Post reports that a notorious egg thief has plunged to his death in South Yorkshire while looking for rare bird eggs. Colin Watson, from Selby, North Yorkshire, was three-quarters of the way up a 40ft larch tree in Doncaster when he fell to his death. Mr. Watson, we presume, was apparently well know for his sticky fingers as the Post further relates that “…he was one of our most prosecuted egg collectors.” Indeed. Was.
While we are on something of a Dead kick…um, Grateful Dead that is of course, we need to alert you to a San Jose Mercury News article bringing word that “Hamza El Din, a musician and composer who helped popularize ancient traditional songs from North Africa, has died. He was 76.” Who? El Din performed at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964 and recorded two albums for the folk label Vanguard in 1964 and 1965. Mickey Hart, a drummer with the rock band the Grateful Dead, helped produce another album, ”Eclipse”. El Din helped arrange a now historic Grateful Dead performance at the Great Pyramids in Egypt in 1978. “Oh, THAT El Din.”
Make ours Over Easy please…
~~The ODDones for OurDailyDead.com
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